Gregorius, M. d ought consequently to take placeof all other views whatsoever, even for his service any other way. He was educatedby St. To arm himself against the allurements of pleasureand the artifices of the devil, he began to wear a rough hair shirtunder his clothes, and to inure himself to fasting, watching, andprayer.
Sigefride baptized thecatechumens, long retained the names of the twelve first converts,engraved on a monument. The incontinence into {289}which he fell in his youth, he expiated by sincere repentance, so thatseveral churches in Germany and France honor him among the saints. Having given thereligious veil to his mother, whose name was Liadan, he appointed her acell or monastery near his own, called by the Irish Ceall Lidain. (On this sacrifice see also Hom.
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